Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

Karl Auer kauer at biplane.com.au
Fri Jul 10 12:16:01 UTC 2015


On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 02:08 -0400, Ricky Beam wrote:
> And planning for a future that doesn't happen because you're too caught up  
> in *planning* that future is irrelevant, too.

Advocating for fewer limits is not "planning". It's the opposite of it.
It's about retaining more flexibility - as a matter of principle.

> And in ~15 years when they have a jobs, they can change what we built.  
> (assuming ever let the paint dry long enough to use it.)

We've had twenty years to implement IPv6 and golly haven't we done a
great job? I suppose we could all hope that our kids will be less
hopeless than we have been. Still... I'd prefer to leave them something
that is easier to change and improve than the last thing we built.

> IPv6 will never get there until it, too, "just works".

No - so why do so many people just keep on and on moaning about how IPv6
doesn't "just work", forgetting that once upon a time IPv4 didn't "just
work" either?

"Getting there" and "just working" are two things that have to be
developed together. One doesn't follow the other, they both become true
side by side, or neither happens at all.

Regards, K.

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